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Question 1

dollfuss affair

Answer 1

• Hitler wanted anchluss but dollfuss didn’t
• He encouraged Austrian Nazis to cause havoc, they did and also killed Dollfuss
• Austrian government regained power thanks to army and mussolini moving troops to the border
• Hitler denied any involvement
  he didn’t want to risk war with italy and needed to rearm germany before anschluss
• Failed attempt

Question 2

what happened leading up to the anschluss-12th feb meeting

Answer 2

• Schuschnigg banned nazi party in jan 1938
• met at Berghof where hitler demanded he lift ban
  also demanded nazi prisoners to be released and nazis to be put in charge of key government posts (Seyss-Inquart)
• hitler would occupy austria if demands refused
• Schuschnigg arranged a plebiscite in austria on reunification
• Schuschnigg asked for help from britain and france but they were reluctant to get involved

Question 3

events leading up to anschluss-results of Berghof meeting

Answer 3

• Hitler desperate to avoid a no vote, show britain and france the people wanted anschluss
• nazis created trouble in austria declaring austrian people asking for help off germany
• 11th march, hitler sends ultimatum to Schuschnigg
• schuschnigg asks britain for help but they refused
• schuschnigg and cabinet resign apart from Seyss-Inquart who became chancellor and invited german army to restore order
• 12th march-hitler invaded austria to complete anschluss

Question 4

what happened after anschluss?

Answer 4

• france or britain didn’t stop him-appeasement, french government resigned
• plebiscite held in april 1938
• 99.7% in favour of nazis but vote was rigged

Question 5

importance of anschluss

Answer 5

• strategic-austria a gateway into south east europe
• economic-austrian gold help repay rearmament deficit, austria rich in manufacturing resources
• international relation-hitler and mussolini strengthen relation, gb and france clearly not prepared to fight

Question 6

what did hitler promise chamberlain on 15th september 1938?

Answer 6

invasion of the sudetendland would be his last territorial request in europe

Question 7

early september 1938

Answer 7

• nazis in sudetenland rioted against government
• hitler demanded the sudetenland become part of germany

Question 8

15th september 1938

Answer 8

• chamberlain flew to hitler’s home and met with him
• hitler told him germany needed complete control of sudetenland for crisis to be solved
• agreed without consulting czechoslovakia

Question 9

what occurred on 22nd september 1938?

Answer 9

• chamberlain returned to germany and told hitler that the czechoslovakians would give him the sudetenland
• hitler then changed his demands so that the czechoslovakian army must leave the land and hand it over to him as czech government were mistreating germans, demanded hungary and poland receive some land
• chamberlain calls this unreasonable and readies british navy for war

Question 10

29-30th september 1938

Answer 10

• munich agreement: britain, france, italy, germany, no soviet union
• britain and france desperate to avoid war and happy to accept hitler’s demands
• german speaking areas placed under german control
• britain and germany signed anglo-german declaration saying they wouldn’t go to war with each other
• hitler promised to respect borders of czechoslovakia and not take anymore land in europe

Question 11

10th october 1938

Answer 11

• hitler marched troops into sudetenland, an area he had no right to, with no international opposition
• czechoslovakia now lost defences and open to further attack from germany
• sudetenland newest area of greater germany

Question 12

what was agreed in the munich conference?

Answer 12

germany could have the sudetenland but wouldn’t invade the rest of czechoslovakia